The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-06
IN THE OZARK REGION.

where Deer, Bear, Panther, Wild
Turkeys, Quail and Rabbits Thrive.
al wish that some of you fellows who like
to talk about the sport you have hunting here
in the cold east could just pack up your
traps about now and go back with me to
country that chap can live in with pleas
ure and comfort while the gales and snow
and frost of this Atlantic climate are getting
their work in to the best kind of advan-
tage," said ''Chip'' Macguire of Spring
field, Mo-, the other night. "Game is al
ways plenty in southern Missouri, " said he,
''but this year it seems to have Outdone it
self in abundance. I came over the old
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad,
and although that was early in the season
for the birds to be making themselves con-
spicuous III bet that l counted a hundred
f1ocks of wild turkeys, and there wasn't
flock out of which l couldn't have shot one
or more of the splendid birds from my win
dow in the car The railroad in one place
runs on trestleS over swamp for several
miles, and in the extensive ponds and bayous
of that wild stretch of country thousands
upon thousands of wild ducks and geese of
all varieties were feeding, some of the water
being covered for acres with the fowl. until
their groups looked like islands in the lakes.
These fowl seemed to be so used to the noise
of the trains that l did not see one move its
position through being startled by the cars
in all that distance.
1.-The day before left Springfield I saw
a bushwhacker come into town with mule
team load of deer carcasses of the finest kind.
I bought one simply to obtain the magnif-
cent head and antlers and all I paid for the
whole business was 1925. There were at
least 200 pounds of the best venison included
in the purchase. You could not get that
head and these horns here for less than SO.
Among the other large game reported plenty
and waiting for the hunter is bear. This
gentle creature more particularly affects
the jungles and swamps Of northern Arkan-
sas, and if an unsuspecting sportsman is
going into these parts he will have to keep
his eyes skinned to find thoroughfares I'M
INSTRUCTED by bruin. The lynx, and now
and then that relic of the days when the
country belonged to two-legged well as
four-foOted savages, the American panther,
still hold a land tenure in that garden
spot of the southwest, and [ am told, greet
visitors after the manner of their kind. L
never daily with game of this kind but |
know men who do, and what they say may
be depended on.
81 went out for rabbit hunt few days
before | left home, and [ got tired of trip
ping over them. That is no exaggeratiOn,
for I give you my word that they jumped
out from every bunch of brush and leaves
that lay in your path. After baSglng all
l could carry went to shooting quail for Il
friend who was with me to bring back homs.
These birds actually paid attention tC
the gun at all, but the f1ocks 1 shot into
kept right on feeding as If nothing had hap
pened, and rather objected to my picking up
the ones 1 had shot We speak of gray and
black squirrels out there as you might refer
to sparrows here, for they take possession
of towns and villages in about the same way.
The beauty of it all is that the later the
season grows the better the weather gets,
and any of you fellows can come out there
New Years and strike it right, and spend
the remainder of the winter in clover. You
won't be apt to see much snow. The Ozark
region is the greatest country 1 know Of
and the water out there is immense. If
you want to have a good hunt come out
and see me, and leave all your medicine at
home. New York Sun.